I am curious about what people mean when they say "de-emphasize breath" or use
the same breath to sustain a phrase in singing you would when you speak. How
could you sustain a phrase at maximum volume with such a shallow breath?
My own breathing problems did not arise because I was too caught up on
breathing or nervous about breathing....they arose because I could not make it
to the end of a phrase on the amount of air I was taking in. To my mind that
would be me not thinking about breathing.
That's why I do they exercises: breath in on 5 beats exhale on 20 beats etc.
So that I can concentrate ongetting the maximum amount of air inside so that I
may sustain a long phrase in a forte.
Lea Ann
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